Sketches of Celebrated Canadians, and Persons Connected with Canada, from the earliest period in the history of the Province down to the present time by MORGAN, Henry J - 1862

Quebec: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1862. Leather bound. Very good. xiii, 779 p. 22 cm. Rebound in quarter leather with black boards, stamped in gilt on the compartmented spine. All edges red. New marbled paper endpapers. The ink initials O.I.B. appear at top of Preface page and on last page of text. A little gilt wearing off top front corner. Some small chips in edges of first pages.

Short biographies of figures of significance to Canada, from those well-known to those now forgotten. Alphabetical list from Rev. Dr. Adamson to S. Zimmerman with individuals such as Lord Aylmer, Sir Charles Bagot, Joseph Brant, Sir Isaac Brock, Colonel By, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Samuel Champlain, Sir James Craig, Comte de Frontenac, De la Verendrye, Lord Dorchester, Lord Durham, John Galt, Robert Gourlay, Sir Frederick Haldimand, Sir William Johnson, John A. Macdonald, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir Alan MacNab, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Susanna Moodie, General James Murray, Pontiac, Gen. Proctor, Thomas Ridout, Egerton Ryerson, John Graves Simcoe, Bishop Strachan, Lord Sydenham, Jean Talon, Tecumseh, David Thompson, Catharine Parr Traill, Admiral Vansittart, Gen. James Wolfe, etc.